Wednesday triple threat.

* The Gervais Principle for corporate organization.



* Congratulations to John Glenn High School for an absolutely 100% legitimate victory over hated rivals Plymouth Wildcats.

* Neilalien explores the monster-carrying-unconscious-woman visual trope with a series of links.

A product of the bomb, yes surely. But far more than that Godzilla is a metaphor for the bomb, as the movie makes clear in almost every frame. This is not your parents' Godzilla, the 1956 recut with Raymond Burr inserted as American interlocutor, a paragon of western stoicism with his boxy suit and pipe held aloft like a talisman. The Japanese original is far darker and more seamless, a topical fantasy of uncommon power. It may not be a great film, but it is an important one, a surprisingly sombre meditation on means and ends, on when exactly the price of peace becomes too costly to pay.

The Guardian apparently gave away DVDs of the original 1954 Godzilla with yesterday's issue; at CommentIsFree, Christopher Orr explains why Gojira is not just another monster movie. Of course, most monster movies aren't "just another monster movie," either; in fact almost none of them are...

Survival tips for a parallel universe:

1) The Food Chain Rule. If it can eat you, you can eat it.

2) The Venom Rule. If a creature's venom is rapidly fatal, you can eat the creature.

3) The Bait and Spike Rule. Biological compatibility also increases the odds that some Earthly toxin, like bug spray or rat poison, will kill the alien creatures if you use it correctly.

4) The Dandelion Rule. Chances are, our ecology is as pernicious to theirs as theirs is to ours.

Click the link for full details...and be careful out there.